School Research: Beacon Charter High School

Author: Kelley Carpenter
District: Woonsocket (Providence County) RI
School: Beacon Charter High School


A. Information Works

When you researched the community and district, you were provided tables to help with the task of making sense of the various graphs available on Information Works site. For your school report, you should make sense of the data one your own. Remember that you can email your instructor if you have any difficulties.

To research your school, you should consider the questions about schools that we brainstormed in class and decide on some questions that YOU think should be answered in your description of your school You should research at least four of the indicators on the school report page for your school to gather information that you feel will serve as evidence for your description.

Questions that you would like to find answers for:
230 students, 9-12. Principal is Michael Skeldon.

NECAP Assessments

Year
% Proficient School
% Proficient State
Details
11th Grade Math
2011-12
58%
30%
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11th Grade Reading
2011-12
91%
76%
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11th Grade Writing
2011-12
75%
51%
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11th Grade Science
2010-11
28%
26%
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http://infoworks.ride.ri.gov/school/beacon-charter-high-school-for-the-arts


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B. SALT Reports

In addition to survey data reported in Information Works, the SALT Surveys and the SALT visit report provides an "on the ground" description of what a group of visiting evaluators found while visiting the school for several days. After learning more about the SALT cycle from the link above, review the most recent report for your school and summarize what you find:

Data of last SALT visit: January 31, 2012 through March 30, 2012.
this school’s Student Survey participation rate is 95.6%

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